Being Neighborly| Costs and Benefits of Nesting Associations between American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) and Black-Billed Magpies (Pica hudsonia)

<p>One goal of community ecology is to examine proximate and ultimate factors driving interactions between species. Part of this work addresses breeding bird aggregations, termed nesting associations. I evaluated costs and benefits of nesting along an association gradient in smaller black-bill...

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Main Author: Esposito, Rhea Marie McKnight
Language:EN
Published: University of Louisiana at Lafayette 2016
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Online Access:http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10003713